The National Cyber Security Strategy 2020 (NCSS 2020) should promote encryption, protect decentralised internet, encourage robust data breach reporting mechanisms, prohibit the use of malware and reward the community of security researchers, the Internet Freedom Foundation wrote in its recommendations to the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS). The NSCS, which has been tasked with formulating the NCSS 2020 had invited comments for the same, and the last date of submission was January 10, 2020. Calling for transparency in the formulation of the strategy, IFF said that a draft of the proposed NCSS 2020 should be put out in the public domain following the first round of consultations. It suggested that the task force which will formulate NCSS 2020 should consider digital rights of Indians, such as privacy, as complementary to a holistic cybersecurity approach. IFF added that NCSS 2020 should not see digital civil liberties and digital security as competing, because they are in fact complimentary. Recommendations made by IFF Encryption protects citizens, and in turn, the nation: Promotion of encryption should be one of the “primary focus areas” of the Strategy, since a failure to encourage it would put individual users at risk, who can be potential entry point vulnerabilities, IFF said. It said that concerns around encryption often fail to factor in the technical architecture of modern ICT devices, and the "many elements of personal data that are often outside of encrypted channels". "Radically expansive" surveillance measures do not prevent cybersecurity breaches, and increase costs and resource deployment without advancing the…
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Promoting encryption should be ‘primary focus area’ of National Cyber Security Strategy 2020: Internet Freedom Foundation
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